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Narendra Modi

  • Greenpeace India Welcomes New Director

    Greenpeace India has appointed Ravi Chellam as its new director. On Wednesday, Greenpeace India made an announcement which they hoped to be for the betterment of the organization.
  • BJP frets over growing dissent against Modi

    Senior leaders from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are growing uneasy about an internal rebellion against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership style, which has punctured his aura of invincibility and threatens to weaken him further.
  • India reels in ailing Chhota Rajan to hunt most-wanted man

    India's national security adviser devised a plan to secure the arrest of a fugitive Mumbai gangster in Indonesia as part of a strategy to hunt down India's most-wanted man, Dawood Ibrahim, police and home ministry sources told Reuters.
  • India-Pakistan peace talks collapse, deadlock sours relations

    The collapse of planned peace talks between India and Pakistan hours before they were to start on Sunday has raised questions about the arch-rivals' willingness to overcome mutual mistrust, built since their separation almost seven decades ago.
  • Battle at Punjab police station ends, nine killed

    Police overcame a group of heavily armed men dressed in military fatigues on Monday after a 12-hour gun battle that ended in a small-town police station in Punjab near the border with Pakistan, and at least nine people were killed.
  • Militant group disowns faction; more attacks in Kashmir

    A Pakistan-based militant group has disowned a splinter faction suspected of a string of killings in Jammu and Kashmir, with the rebuke followed swiftly on Friday by a string of attacks on telecoms facilities in the state's main city.
  • Graft allegations stall parliament, and economic reforms

    Parliament was adjourned on the first day of a new session after opposition lawmakers demanded the resignation of leaders tainted by corruption allegations, deepening an impasse that has stalled the government's reform agenda.
  • Indian, Pakistani troops exchange gunfire, not sweets on Eid

    Indian and Pakistani forces traded fire across their disputed frontier over the weekend, when Muslims celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr, injuring several civilians and raising tension despite a recent agreement aimed at improving ties.
  • PM Modi battles opposition to key land reform

    Opposition parties boycotted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's latest attempt to build consensus around a business-friendly land bill on Wednesday, boding badly for his ambitious agenda of economic reform in a parliament session that starts next week.
  • India, U.S. join hands to close in on tax evaders

    India and the United States signed a tax information sharing agreement on Thursday, under a new U.S. law meant to combat offshore tax dodging by Americans as well as by Indians stashing funds abroad.
  • Mystery deaths in recruitment scam pressure Modi's party

    The deaths of a number of witnesses in a massive fraud case surrounding cheating at college and government jobs has become the latest source of discomfort for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), already on the defensive over influence trafficking allegations.